Exploring the Pacific
By: by Martha Vail.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Discovery and exploration
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604131970
Subjects: Explorers -- Pacific Area -- Juvenile literature; Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Tide beating heart of the earth"; title: The first Pacific explorers; title: Europeans encounter the Pacific, from east and west; title: The Spanish in the Pacific; title: Exploration in the service of commerce; title: Exploration in the service of empire; title: James Cook explores the Pacific; title: Science and empire.